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Friday, October 29, 2010

Battle for the Cowl: Batman Collection Reveal!

The day has finally arrived to unveil our Batman collections, here's my shelf of Batman in all its glory! My lovely wife let me use a couple of her Halloween Bats to decorate with on either side, thanks again.

So, on the shelf I have 101 Batman plus an additional 3 of plush I keep in the collection AND my late find from yesterday, he's at the end of the post and now on the shelf, giving me a grand total of 105 Different Batmans (or is that Batmen). I will note I could have slammed Reis in the plush area of the competition as I have access to countless variations of plush Batman items.

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So, Here is the break down by section. You can click on any of the photos to get a much larger view.

and last but not least105) Kenner The New Batman Adventures Bat Plane Pack in Batman, or as I am now calling him "Tardy for the Party Batman"

These last 6 are my "Extras" for whatever reason or another you are going to end up with extras. They could be from a two or three pack or just because they had a new accessory, I thought I would put some numbers on them just to show them, they felt left out. They will be taking their place on the shelf after the competition.

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106) Mattel The Batman Tripple Strike Batman107) Mattel DC Super Heroes Batman Release 2 (Single Pack Release)108) Mattel JLU Batman Second Release with Wider Stance109) Mattel Brave and the Bold Action League Batman fists Extra(you are going to get these with two pack releases)110) C3 Minimate Mini Flyer Batman (Just wanted a Second one of these)111) Mattel The Batman - This one has a cowl variation, I normally count this as a different figure, but hard to photograph so I pulled it from the line up.

Last, here is an outtake image showing how the Batshelf dominates my open collection, got to keep those Stormtroopers and Mr. Spocks in line.

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Also since I am writing this before the big reveal, and have no idea how many Batman items Reis has, I just want to add this was a fun little contest and brought back a lot of memories of why I collect certain things. It made me realize I have a crap load of batman toys and what not. It made me miss some I had given away or sold off, but still I have the memories. Oh, and it made me hope I thoroughly trounced Reis and his Batman Collection : )

@ Brian B - Thanks and an excellent question, it took me a couple days to set up, then I had to go back and adjust things, every time knocking something over and playing dominos. I then re-hung the hanging bats. So over three nights of set up. Maybe an hour shoot, another 45 processing the images and identifying. That was the fun part.

Awesome collection I like how you and Reis focus on the Black, and Blue and Gray Bat suits. Back in the day, I had many of Neon, rainbow, and sparkle camo ones. I noticed I missed a few looking at the two collections, so I am probably closer to 50 then I thought. And there are a few in their I am going to have to hunt down to add. Thanks for rekindling a past addiction that I though I cured. (yes this was copied and pasted, and edited).

Thanks everyone, oh and Dan I have probably gotten rid of a ton of those "neon camo jet ski" Batmans in my day. I think I have purged quite a few out of my collection including some "regular" ones. It helps if you don't look back, LOL.

With that said I think I am off to gets me a celebratory Batman!

Bat Hound will continue to poke around the collection from time to time too.

Number 87 batman which is hanging and carries a bat-winged glider is actually from this line -> Knight Assault Batman (Mission Masters 3), produced by Kenner/Hasbro in the year 2000.Link to the pic:gofigureactionfigures.com/media/knightassaultbatman.jpg